On Wisconsin, Plunge Right Through That Line!

If you grew up playing the trombone, as I did, one of your favorite college "fight songs" to play was "On Wisconsin." The lively song is also the state song of Wisconsin.Today, there are special recall elections in the Badger State for six state senators. The recall efforts were mounted after the showdown in the state legislature over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's union busting efforts last winter. Midterm elections are always difficult to predict, especially when they occur in the middle of August. What is likely to be tested today is not the sentiment of the majority, but the organizing capacity of the opposing sides and, to a degree, the relative degrees of outrage among the respective bases of the two parties. If you are reading this, and you are a registered voter in Wisconsin, be sure to make your voice heard. And if you are Catholic and in Wisconsin, be sure to stand with the Church in its long history of support for the right to organize and its support for organized labor. In other words, maybe we should "plunge left through that line!"

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